[zelon88]

> Good careers that also pay through their apprenticeship programs and currently are looking for kids to train.

This isn't always viable either. I started in entry-level manufacturing and worked my way up to production control and IT specifically because even at the highest level of manufacturing I wasn't going to be satisfactorily compensated. I would have been working long overtime hours for a decade or two only to be replaced by CNC machines instead of ever hitting the bigtime anyway. If I hadn't swapped collars I was destined for a life of sub $50k hard labor with shitty insurance and constant threats of bodily injury. Reporting to a "boss" who probably made as much as the manager of McDonalds and drove a Rav-4. Yeah, that's real potential right there.